Material composed of skin and paper.



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MATERIAL COMPOSED OF SKIN AND PAPER.

' APPLICATION man DEC-5.19M.

1 ,300,535, Patented Apr. 15, 1919.

Inve mu *0 Axel VV'hist AXEL wHIs'r, or HAGGEDAL, NORWAY.

. MATERIAL CQMPOSED 0F SKIN AND PAPER.

Application filed December 5, 1917. Serial No. 205,70fi;

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Axnr. WHIST, a citizen of Norway, residing at Heggedal, Norway, have invented new and useful Improvements in Materials Composed of Skin and Paper, of which the following is a specification.

Skins of different sorts have hitherto been used for various purposes. Thus reindeerskin and similar very extensible skins have been used as a furniture covering, in driving belts and the like. In similar manner paper sheets and woven paper have been used for many and rather curious purposes. 'Such paper has been used in the manufacture of artificial boards, railway-wheels, artificial fabrics and as furniture covering, etc..

Each of the said materials, skin and paper, separately are however-beside their cheapness and other advantages afilicted with some drawbacks. Thus for instance skin has a certain extensibility which in case of furniture covering results in the covering being crumpled and unevenly worn after a short times use, whereas paper is not strong enough to withstand long usageduring rubbing and wearing, and will soon wear through.

The present invention consists in combining skin and paper and thereby providing a material which possesses the good properties of the skin as regards strength and durabiliity, and at the same time possesses the nonstretching qualities of paper.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which 1 represents a sheet of skin; 3 a sheet-of paper or woven paper; and 2 cementing material uniting the skin and paper.

Reindeer-skin its high extensibilityhas hitherto not been applicable to the making of gloves and the like, but cemented to paper to form an integral material, the reindeer-skin loses its extensibility, because its fibers are preventedfrom stretching in longitudinaland trans-- verse directions by said paper. The paper should preferably be in the form of a woven material as mentioned above, in which the warp threads formed of aper counteract the extensibility in one direction and. the woof threads formed of paper counteract the stretching in the other direction. The

for instanceon account of cementing material may of course be any suitable one, but in any case it should be a material effecting the most intensive uniting of the skin and paper and which does not.

render the skin stiff or in any other way unsuitable for the purpose. v

The above explanation is given with special' thought of. a product applicable as a furniture or other covering, but by cementing or gluing together a stronger skin than for instance reindeer-skin and a very strong woven paper, the finished material may also be used as a material for the manufacture of driving belts. In any case it will be very suitable for use as a covering for furnitures. It has proved to be much better than pegamoid, and it may be fully compared with buffalo-skin. Placed together in several layers of skin and paper it is very suitable.

, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:' I

1. A laminated material consisting 'of a sheet of animal skin and a woven material formed of threads of paper, the two constituents being glued and rolled together into an integral product having the softness and strength of skin and the non-stretching properties of paper.

2. A material as claimed in claim 1, composed of reindeer skin and woven fabric made from paper threads counteracting in two directions perpendicular to each other the extensibility of the rein-deer skin fibers.

3. A material as claimed in claim 1 composed of a number of alternate layers, of woven paper threads and animal skin cemented and rolled together.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AXEL WHIST.

Witnesses:

Axnr. LAHN,

MOGENS Btiesn: 

